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Post by cherry on May 19, 2007 14:46:28 GMT -5
This has happened before but today I'm sitting at the comp so thought I'd share! Has anyone else had strange pains where it feels like there is an electric shock going through your abdomen, makes your knees wobbly and you go all dizzy with it? Almost like you're going outside yourself and coming back within a few seconds. It's weird also that when I don't get the pain, my abdomen feels really sorta itchy and tickly inside, like when you scratch your lower back and get a weird sensation in your leg, if you've ever had that! It's worrying cos it's coming around more often, and last time I fainted when I got a massive 'shock'. I know it'll get worse over the next 24 hours from past experience. I don't wanna go to the hospital cos last time I went to ER, even though I was in tears I left against the doctor's advice and refused the morphine drip. Er sorta defeats the object I know, but I don't know what I even want now so there's no point going! xx
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Post by ouchy on May 19, 2007 15:31:26 GMT -5
I have had this happen, and I still do once in a while. I had a pinched nerve in my lower back, which made me buckle. It felt like an electric shock. My going weak in the knees definitely wasn't related to my endo, though. I went to a chiropractor, and he fixed it. Now it only happens a couple times a year. Good luck!
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Post by cherry on May 19, 2007 15:43:59 GMT -5
Ooh that's a thought actually! I have had slight trapped nerve pain in my lower back before, and this feels a bit like that. I think the reason why I think it's endo is cos it's happened before on my period, and also I have this heavy feeling and it seems to be around where my womb is. Unless this little cow is sitting on my nerve, also a thought! Little update, I call my womb Louisa the cow. She moos. I am completely off my face on painkillers! xx
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Post by ouchy on May 19, 2007 16:07:38 GMT -5
I had a pinched nerve while I was on my period, too.
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Post by cherry on May 20, 2007 16:42:01 GMT -5
Whew, woke up feeling tons better this morning so now even more convinced it was a trapped/pinched nerve. Back onto my more generic pains today, bah! xx
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Post by gemini on May 20, 2007 17:11:01 GMT -5
It's weird also that when I don't get the pain, my abdomen feels really sorta itchy and tickly inside, I can definately relate to that..sometimes it lasts for more than hour..and i just put it down to me being stressed. Gosh the excuses i come up with sometimes. My left knee buckles a lot..and is much worse when i'm climing the stairs. Can i ask something plz..does every normal person have these wierd aches and pains. I don't hear my friends complaining of such things !
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Post by ouchy on May 20, 2007 19:16:55 GMT -5
Can i ask something plz..does every normal person have these wierd aches and pains. I don't hear my friends complaining of such things ! MOST "normal" people experience MUCH of the same stuff we do--sans period pain, etc. MOST people get knee, hips that lock up after sitting too long or when they pinch a nerve. MOST people get ear aches. MOST people get headaches. MOST people get tooth/jaw aches. We women with endo are more normal than we think! It's just that we're SO attune to even the slightest pain that we tend to chalk EVERYTHING up to endo pain! The best way for me to step back and realize it's most likely NOT endo pain is to look around at men--men who don't have endo--and see that they get the SAME pains, too!
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Post by cherry on May 21, 2007 4:28:34 GMT -5
While that is a valid point and happens a lot, I think I know my body better than to attribute every single thing to the endo. I have tried to convey the fact that the pain goes beyond what a trapped nerve feels like for me, and the fact it has happened at the same time the last 3 cycles so I can't write it off as not being endo, cos to me, 3rd time for anything is time to investigate. I ignore pain until it gets to the pain of being unbearable, and can discern between period pain and endo pain, sitting too long, and actual/referred endo pain. I have learnt to attune myself to what body is telling me rather than just a load of haphazard pain signals. So I do not want to write this off to my chalking it up to endo pain. Everything about it says endo to me, by process of elimination not cos I want it to. I only posted this topic cos I felt that the pain in itself is bad, but the fact that it makes me nearly pass out (and has knocked me out in the past) is a serious thing. Believe me if there was a possibility it was cos I'd banged my head, I'd look into that, but it simply all comes down to what I associate as pain caused by my endometriosis. Believe me if I compared myself to a man and their infamous 'man-flu' feelings, I would spend every day in bed crying.
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Post by gemini on May 21, 2007 7:54:39 GMT -5
Can i ask something plz..does every normal person have these wierd aches and pains. I don't hear my friends complaining of such things ! MOST "normal" people experience MUCH of the same stuff we do--sans period pain, etc. MOST people get knee, hips that lock up after sitting too long or when they pinch a nerve. MOST people get ear aches. MOST people get headaches. MOST people get tooth/jaw aches. We women with endo are more normal than we think! It's just that we're SO attune to even the slightest pain that we tend to chalk EVERYTHING up to endo pain! The best way for me to step back and realize it's most likely NOT endo pain is to look around at men--men who don't have endo--and see that they get the SAME pains, too! i guess you've got a pain there...But ENDO does cause a lot of pain & all the areas that hurt me are due to endo i believe. I wouldn't blame endo for a headache or a toothache
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Post by ouchy on May 21, 2007 9:35:50 GMT -5
While that is a valid point and happens a lot, I think I know my body better than to attribute every single thing to the endo. I have tried to convey the fact that the pain goes beyond what a trapped nerve feels like for me, and the fact it has happened at the same time the last 3 cycles so I can't write it off as not being endo, cos to me, 3rd time for anything is time to investigate. I ignore pain until it gets to the pain of being unbearable, and can discern between period pain and endo pain, sitting too long, and actual/referred endo pain. I have learnt to attune myself to what body is telling me rather than just a load of haphazard pain signals. So I do not want to write this off to my chalking it up to endo pain. Everything about it says endo to me, by process of elimination not cos I want it to. I only posted this topic cos I felt that the pain in itself is bad, but the fact that it makes me nearly pass out (and has knocked me out in the past) is a serious thing. Believe me if there was a possibility it was cos I'd banged my head, I'd look into that, but it simply all comes down to what I associate as pain caused by my endometriosis. Believe me if I compared myself to a man and their infamous 'man-flu' feelings, I would spend every day in bed crying. Cherry, I didn't mean to piss you off. I was responding to Gemini's question if normal people get most of the same stuff we do, too. Plus, in your previous post, you were "more convinced it was a trapped nerve," bc you woke up feeling tons better. That's why I thought you also thought it wasn't endo in your knees or something. If you really think it is endo in your knees, you can have orthoscopic surgery. Kinda' like a lap, only of the knees? My brother had to have it done to replace cartilage. Oh. That's something else I forgot about. Sometimes tendons get caught in the knees and can lock them up and even make you fall over.
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Post by ouchy on May 21, 2007 9:56:09 GMT -5
i guess you've got a pain there...But ENDO does cause a lot of pain & all the areas that hurt me are due to endo i believe. I wouldn't blame endo for a headache or a toothache You may not think endo causes headaches or toothaches, or jaw aches, but we've had threads in the past where people jump to associate even those things to endo. I even saw on another endo forum recently where someone started a thread about dental work causing her endo to grow!
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Post by cherry on May 22, 2007 0:14:50 GMT -5
Not pain in my knees, I had Osgood Schlatter Disease but thats not an issue now. When I said weak at the knees I meant the 'shock' type pains in my abdomen that were making me need to sit down, and making me feel faint. It was a figure of speech really. The trapped nerve pain is definitely a feature, hence all the 'shocks', and that is why I think it's a part of whatever is causing this strange pain. The fact that they are through my abdomen, seem to link in with a crushing pain around my pelvis and make me feel so dizzy, as well as me having the usual referred pains through to my back and upper right, I do think it is linked to or even caused by the endo. I'm not a doctor but like I said I only listen to what my body is telling me. I'm in no rush to assume there is more going wrong than the basic endo right now. Thats why I also said that maybe my uterus is sitting on a nerve or something, as I get leg pain that my gynae said was caused by that.
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Post by ouchy on May 22, 2007 9:51:18 GMT -5
Either way, I hope they can figure it out. What are the doc's plans for getting to the bottom of it? Is he doing MRI's and wanting to go back in and suspend your uterus so it's not compressing the nerve if that is what it is? If it is a pinched nerve, it should definitely be treated, bc not treating it can lead to nerve degeneration and possible loss of muscle use. If you didn't think it had to do with endo, I'd say possibly even a chiropractor could help untrap the nerve. But if it is endo...that probably wouldn't work.
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